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Is Ownership of Guns Itself Evidence of Drug Dealing?
" ... the Government points out that Mr. Franklin also owns several firearms, which the Government contends
"have long been recognized as being 'tools of the drug trade.'"
[Doc. 87 at 6 n.2 (quoting in part United States v. Ward, 171 F.3d 188, 195 (4th Cir. 1999)].
It is undisputed, however, that Mr. Franklin owned these firearms legally; "
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